Leveling Up to Make Your Dreams Come True

We all sometimes need to be lifted and reminded how amazing we are. In the busy-ness of life and or the quietness of a quarantine, we need to find our voice and the path to overcome the obstacles keeping us from reaching our goals/dreams. I will give 5 simple tips you can take to reach your destiny.

Ms. Donna Thomas is currently senior partner of Mountainside Clothing, LLC, a clothing retailer. Donna is responsible for business operations, marketing, training, sales and leadership development for her company and growing team.

Donna’s business partner is her adult daughter, Kirsten Thomas, and has struck a balance between quality and quantity of time with the family and her work, and is living her best life!!! Previously, Donna was Vice President at Xerox where she championed cost optimization initiatives totaling over $100M, built a quality assurance, internal audit organization from scratch, established automatic data analytics, and lead a cultural process transformation that lead to securing an ISO 9001 certification within 10 months in 2013, yielding “zero nonconformities” with 33 best practices identified by the external auditor. Throughout her career, she has worked on a number transformation challenges including standing up a corporate/global quality assurance program with data analytics, standing up an ERP with shared services for payroll, benefits and HR at Lockheed Martin, managing $2.3B joint program for Boeing, and owning and operating a successful small business in the area of compliance and quality assurance. Throughout her working history, Ms. Thomas has held key leadership positions and been responsible for turning operations around when no one else could. She brings a passion to “make it happen.” Donna was also responsible for creating and building out a professional/personal development organization for women empowerment at Xerox.

In industry she is a notable with ISO9001/TL9000 standards development, CMMI, and a National Quality Award Baldrige examiner. She has spoken at a number of events and has presented and published over 20 technical papers and articles on benchmarking, operational excellence, business management, systems engineering, metrics, quality and process.

Donna challenges herself to go the extra mile in all that she does and claims to be blessing lives 365 days a year. In her spare time, she enjoys time with her family and volunteering. She lives with her husband, and son in mountains of southern Frederick County, Maryland.